Elementary School Lessons

Here is a link to the full transcript of the State of the Nation Address of President NoyNoy Aquino during the 15th Philippine Congress.

Some excerpts:

Matagal pong naligaw ang pamahalaan sa daang baluktot.

Ganyan din po ang nangyari sa pondo ng MWSS. Kamakailan lamang, pumipila ang mga tao para lang makakuha ng tubig.

Narinig po ninyo kung paano nilustay ang kaban ng bayan. Ang malinaw po sa ngayon: ang anumang pagbabago ay magmumula sa pagsiguro natin na magwawakas na ang pagiging maluho at pagwawaldas.

Kung ang sagot sa kawalan ng katarungan ay pananagutan, ang sagot naman sa kakulangan natin sa pondo ay mga makabago at malikhaing paraan para tugunan ang mga pagkatagal-tagal nang problema.

Mahirap magsimula ang usapan habang mayroon pang amoy ng pulbura sa hangin. Nananawagan ako: huwag po natin hayaang masayang ang napakagandang pagkakataong ito upang magtipon sa ilalim ng iisang adhikain.

Puwede na muling mangarap. Tayo nang tumungo sa katuparan ng ating mga pinangarap.

July is Nutrition Month.

Schools are actively participating in the Nutrition Month with different activities as well as major culminating events. In line with the Nutrition Month, Palamantasan was launched which enables the students to compete in different activities and learn about Nutrition the fun way.

For more information on Palamantasan, click here and here.

After Nutrition Month, it is up to you, parents, to follow through that your children are getting the right nutrition.

Is your child being bullied in school? My younger daughter is being bullied in school.

What do you do when you learn about this?

Here are a few tips on what to do if in case your child came home from school and told you the nasty things his/her classmate has been doing to him/her:

• Keep calm
• Talk to your child and try to have him/her narrate what really happened and how it happened
• Take note of the date, time, place, witnesses and the circumstances when the bullying episodes happened. This is very important especially if you plan to write a complaint.
• Have your son/daughter write in a journal, daily if they must, about what is happening in the school.
• Set an appointment with the class adviser as soon as possible so that you can tell her what your child told you.
• If nothing happens after you have alerted/talked to the class adviser, write a formal complaint to the guidance counselor to let them know that you child is being bullied in school.

Next topic:

How to Deal with a School Bully

Grade 1 Language Arts Reviewer for Words with EA

Write the correct words in the blanks:

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-steal

1. These are vegetables _________________

2. What we do with books _________________

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Colors are fascinating. For young children, coloring is a super fun activity.

However, there can NEVER be one color for some of the things that we say they are. Leaves are not only green and apples are not just red.

If there is a blue sky, there is a purple sky as well.

And there are red trees. Fire tree. Flame Tree. Caballero. Arbol De Fuego. Whatever is this specie called, it is still the Red Tree for us and these trees are seen everywhere bursting with red and orange hues from April till July.

I used to have a student who, young as he was, has a creative mind. During the first few days of school, they were asked to draw their homes. He drew a tree planted near their home but instead of coloring the tree as having green leaves, he colored the tree RED. He said the tree in front of their house is red.

The teacher can not accept his answer it seems. This teacher, perhaps she hasn’t seen a red tree or is not as observant as her young student. Errr… teacher? Are you ok?

As I have written in this blog post, the children are Homeschoolers No More.

I will try to upgrade where I left the posts hanging but I am not promising anything.

Meanwhile, thank you for taking time to visit. I had to disable comments because there are a few people out there who, obviously looking for answers to their children’s homework, stumbled upon our blog entries but left nasty comments.

If this is the kind of Filipino parents that are out there, I hope there aren’t many of you.

Sorry I just had to say my piece. Peace! 🙂

Lunchbox Ideas: Yakiniku Beef and mushrooms

Yakiniku beef and mushrooms. I don’t really care much about exact measurements so adjusting the taste for this dish is up to the dietary requirements of the  one who will eat.

I just browned chopped garlic in a little olive oil, cooked the yakiniku beef (marinated with a little soy sauce and less sodium oyster sauce), added the sliced button mushrooms and added a dash of pepper.

Lunchboxes were empty when the children came home.

A classmate smelled the food (or tasted a bit) and said it tasted like the beef and mushroom rice being served by a popular fastfood chain.

Yey!